What would we do during an AI pause? Let frontier lab staff finally think
JacquesThibs · x · 2026-10-08
Responding to the common objection against an AI pause — "ok but what do we do during that pause" — JacquesThibs argues one outcome would be that frontier AI company employees finally get breathing room to think.
In the middle of the race, he says, there's no time or mental space to consider anything beyond slight deviations down the same path; decompression lets minds become more reasonable and open to alternative pathways.
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